Monday, October 31, 2011

This soup is one my mom has made for years and I love it! Baking the potatoes instead of boiling them gives this soup such a rich wonderful flavor!

Bake the potatoes ahead of time, 400 degrees for 1 hour, and let them cool completely to make it easier to cut into cubes. Leave most of the skins on. If there are pieces that are falling off - remove those.

The roux is made very simply by melting the butter and adding flour and cooking until bubbly. Don't let the name scare you off!

Baked Potato Soup

2 cans chicken broth

2 celery stocks

1 onion

5 cups milk

1 tsp garlic powder

1 tsp onion salt

1 tsp salt (to taste)

Black pepper to taste

¼ tsp Tabasco sauce

Roux – 1 cube butter + ½ c (plus a little) flour

½ jar cheese whiz

6 potatoes baked and cut up into cubes (leaving most of the skins on – if they are falling off – discard the skin pieces)

Crumbled bacon bits (not the imitation ones)

Chop celery and onion and boil in the chicken broth until tender.Blend either with an immersion blender or puree in a blender until smooth.Add the milk and continue cooking until it gets hot.Add the seasoning and the roux (see below).When thickened, add the cheese whiz and potatoes.Garnish with crumbled bacon sprinkled on top.

Roux – melt the butter in a small frying pan.Sprinkle the flour in and whisk, continuing to cook until it gets bubbly.Remove from heat.Allow to cool.

What I Believe

About Me

I am the mom to four wonderful children who all married VERY well and I am the grandmother to 15 of the world's cutest, smartest, most wonderful children on this planet! I LOVE my wonderful husband of 39 years and I love my life.

Helps for printing recipes from this blog

To copy a recipe from this blog, highlight the portion you wish to copy, right click the mouse and click "copy". Then open your word processor and then right click and click "paste" on a blank sheet. Because the words in the recipe are white, it will look like nothing copied. Just highlight the entire recipe in your word processor and change the font color to black.